The Fulton Street Business Improvement District is now up and running and will start collecting money from merchants and making street improvements soon. But the battle of the BID isn’t over yet. Tonight at 6 p.m. merchants along Fulton who oppose the BID and the assessments it levies ($64 about $50 per foot of Fulton frontage) will meet at 16 Putnam Avenue to plan their next move.

Schellie Hagan, an activist who is one of the most vocal opponents of the BID, said that while the BID made sense for the relatively flush economic times it was conceived in, it doesn’t anymore. “People don’t have any money,” she said.

The city Department of Transportation’s controversial Citi Bike bike-sharing program, which put 600 bike racks on the streets of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, has residents up in arms. But kiosks are not coming down, New York City Council Member Letitia James told more than 100 neighborhood residents at a raucous town hall meeting last night.

Get news about Fort Greene and Clinton Hill in our daily roundup, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s summer slate of youth-oriented programs and the third annual Art of Brooklyn Film Festival coming to St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill.

In today’s daily post, you’ll find news on the spring opening of the Fort Greene Artisan Market, a Pratt Institute student artwork display at a Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan and a new recording studio in the nabe.

In this crime report, locals told police that their belongings were stolen from cars and trucks, their homes were burglarized and their bank accounts were used in unauthorized ways. Also, disputes between significant others resulted in violence and robberies last week. The trend of robberies on the B38 bus continued last week, with another incident on May 4 marking the tenth such robbery in the precinct this year so far.

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